Comments on: Surgical Ethics: The Public’s Right To Know? Surgical Treatment of Public Figures http://blog.oup.com/2008/07/surgical-ethics/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:14:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Telling the Truth About Terminal Diseases : OUPblog http://blog.oup.com/2008/07/surgical-ethics/comment-page-1/#comment-146999 Telling the Truth About Terminal Diseases : OUPblog Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:07:11 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1973#comment-146999 [...] Ethics, the foundation of a working society, are especially important in a patient/surgeon relationship. In The Ethics of Surgical Practice: Cases, Dilemmas, and Resolutions authors James W. Jones, M.D., Ph.D., M.H.A, Laurence B. McCullough, Ph.D, and Bruce W. Richman, M.A., provide a collection of clinical case studies representing a wide range of the ethical issues surgeons confront today. In the excerpt below the authors ask, how to respect end of life issues? View last week’s excerpt here. [...] [...] Ethics, the foundation of a working society, are especially important in a patient/surgeon relationship. In The Ethics of Surgical Practice: Cases, Dilemmas, and Resolutions authors James W. Jones, M.D., Ph.D., M.H.A, Laurence B. McCullough, Ph.D, and Bruce W. Richman, M.A., provide a collection of clinical case studies representing a wide range of the ethical issues surgeons confront today. In the excerpt below the authors ask, how to respect end of life issues? View last week’s excerpt here. [...]

]]> By: Kelly http://blog.oup.com/2008/07/surgical-ethics/comment-page-1/#comment-146946 Kelly Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:55:14 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1973#comment-146946 Thanks for the information on surgical ethics. Thta's interesting, I've never thought of it like that before. We recently wrote an <a href="http://brainblogger.com/2008/07/13/ethics-101-its-beyond-my-scope-of-practice/" rel="nofollow">article</a> on at <a href="http://brainblogger.com/" rel="nofollow">Brain Blogger</a>. When treating patients, a lot of doctors qualify their patients as "good" and "bad". Sometimes, a doctor may pass on a "bad" patient to another doctor, saying that the patient is "beyond the scope of his practice." Though sometimes there is a good reason behind this, is it ethically right to pass on an annoying patient to another doctor? We would like to read your comments on our article. Thank you. Sincerely, Kelly Thanks for the information on surgical ethics. Thta’s interesting, I’ve never thought of it like that before.

We recently wrote an article on at Brain Blogger. When treating patients, a lot of doctors qualify their patients as “good” and “bad”. Sometimes, a doctor may pass on a “bad” patient to another doctor, saying that the patient is “beyond the scope of his practice.” Though sometimes there is a good reason behind this, is it ethically right to pass on an annoying patient to another doctor?

We would like to read your comments on our article. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Kelly

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